Vulnerability & Exploit Database

Gentoo Linux: CVE-2008-3908: WordNet: Execution of arbitrary code

Severity

CVSS

Published

Added

Modified

10

(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)

September 04, 2008

October 30, 2017

October 30, 2017

Description

Multiple buffer overflows in Princeton WordNet (wn) 3.0 allow context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code via (1) a long argument on the command line; a long (2) WNSEARCHDIR, (3) WNHOME, or (4) WNDBVERSION environment variable; or (5) a user-supplied dictionary (aka data file). NOTE: since WordNet itself does not run with special privileges, this issue only crosses privilege boundaries when WordNet is invoked as a third party component.